Apple aiming to make Siri 'more like an agent' as soon as next year: report

Apple finally shipped its long awaited personalized Siri with iOS 27. The company lived up to its promises, and delivered on its hefty goals that it set out back in 2024.

That said, Siri still lacks in terms of proactively taking actions for you, a feature that many AI companies are actively working towards. Apple might come around on that next year, per Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. The company is also experimenting with a new engineering pipeline that might make faster development possible.

In recent months, companies like Meta and SpaceXSI have gone all-in on new agentic AI interfaces that can carry out tasks for you. Muse and Grok Bot are agents that have their own virtual machines and can proactively handle tasks in the background for you, then deliver results.

Apple has a lot of potential to deliver in this space, especially given all of the frameworks they’ve built up over the years, like App Intents. With Apple, you hypothetically wouldn’t need to depend on as much computer-use ability, making certain tasks a lot less expensive.

According to Mark Gurman in his Power On newsletter, Apple could debut its own proactive version of Siri as soon as next year:

It remains to be seen what Apple will ultimately ship here, but with the right execution, Apple certainly has high potential to compete in this space.

A major part of better execution is having a better process. According to Gurman, Apple is also giving engineers more time to code and explore, rather than spend as much time integrating features within the operating system.

Typically, each of these stages is four weeks. With the first cycle of iOS 28 development, Apple is allotting 6 weeks to coding and 2 weeks to integration. This change was likely driven by the massive advances in agentic coding tools in the past couple years:

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